Improvement in hangings for sliding and swinging gates



D. McCURDY.

HANGINGS FOR SLIDING AND SWINGING GATES.

Pate'ntedAug. 29,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

DAVID MOOURDY, 6F OTTAWA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANGINGS FOR SLIDING- AND SWINGING GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,585, dated August29, 1876; application filed April 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID MoOURDY, of Ottawa, in the county of Putnamand State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Hangings forFarm-Gates, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensivemeans for hanging a farm-gate in such a manner that it will slide on aroller until nearly equipoised, when .it can be swung open, the gateswinging upon the single roller, no hinges being required.

The invention consists in the peculiar con- I struction and combinationof a bracket, a

roller, and a guard, in connection with the heel-post ot' the gateway.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the closed Fig. 2 is a similar view ofthe open gate. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal section through theheel-post and roller, the parts being constructed as applied in use.

In the drawing, A represents a gate, whose top bar A is extended toslide between the head-post B and a guard-plate, B, secured to its face.The ends of the horizontal bars of the gate are extended so as to slidebetween the head-post and its guard plate. 0 is the heel-post, to theface of which, near the top thereof, is bolted a metal bracket, D,having stops at a at top and bottom, in line with the side of the postnext the gateway. D is a roller, journaled by a bolt, 12, in the axis ofabout one-halt'its length, or nearly equipoised,

when it may be swung parallel with the roadway until arrested by thestops at and guardplate D v To prevent animals from pushing in the heelof the gate at the bottom an eyebolt, E, is screwed diagonally betweenthe two lower bars into the face of the heel-post, and a verticaltoggle-pin, c, driven throughthe eye of the bolt, as shown; but a shortpost driven into the ground under the hanging will answer the samepurpose.

What I claim as my invention is The bracket D, roller D and guard plateD secured together by the bolt 12, in combination with the heel-post ofa gateway, for hanging a gate thereto, substantially as described. A

- DAVID MOOURDY. Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTs, H. S. SPRAGUE.

